Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum (Hochst. ex Steud.) Stapf

 
  • Family : POACEAE
    (Grass Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : GHAS FAMILY (घास फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Poaceae
  • Synonym(s) : Panicum oxyphyllum Hochst. ex Steud.; Agrostis minima Lour.; Cyrtococcum pilipes (Nees & Arn. ex Buse) A.Camus; Panicum hermaphroditum Steud.; Panicum pilipes Nees & Arn. ex Buse; Panicum pulipes Müll.Berol.; Vilfa minima Trin. ex Steud.
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum (Hochst. ex Steud.) Stapf
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests
  • Comments / notes : Often on hills above 1200m,by moist places.
  • Flower, Fruit : August-March
  • Collector(s) Name : Cecil J. Saldanha
  • Collection Date : 20/11/1969
  • Collection Nos : CJS 15626
  • Collection Locality : Vanagur, Hassan district
  • Distribution :
    • Andhra Pradesh : Srikakulam district
    • Karnataka : Hassan district
    • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Kottayam district, Pathanamthitta district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
    • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Mumbai-City district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Raigad district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district
    • Odisha : Kalhandi district, Ganjam district, Mayurbhanj district, Bolangir district
    • Tamil Nadu : Hills above 1200m, often by moist places
    • Madhya Pradesh : Hoshangabad district
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri, Tirap
    • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
    • Assam : Assam
    • Nagaland : Nagaland
    • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
    • Mizoram : Mizoram
    • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Islands
    • Manipur : Manipur
    • Tripura : Tripura
  • Native : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Caroline Islands, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Society Islands
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Caroline Islands, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Niue, Philippines, Samoa, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Islands
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • Literature :
    • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1996- Flora of Orissa Vol. 4
    • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
    • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
    • B. D. Sharma, S. Karthikeyan & N. P. Singh 1996 - Flora of Maharashtra state - Monocotyledons
    • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
    • H J, Chowdhery, et al. Materials for Flora of Arunachal Pradesh. Volume 3, Botanical Survey of India, 2009. Pg.: 281
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Cyrtococcum oxyphyllum. Downloaded on 13 December 2024.

Botanical Description

Herbarium Specimen(s)

Habitat

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.